TCM and LACMA to Premiere Newly Scored Version of Lon Chaney's Laugh Clown, Laugh (1928) on Jan. 30 in LACMA's Bing Theatre
Turner Classic Movies and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art celebrate classic film and the impact of movie music by bringing cinephiles a unique public viewing of one of Lon Chaney’s great performances as Tito Beppi in LAUGH, CLOWN, LAUGH (1929) on Thursday, Jan. 30, at 7:30 p.m. The silent film has not been seen in public for decades because its original score was lost, but thanks to TCM’s annual Young Film Composers Competition, it has received a new score and a new life. The Jan. 30 screening will be the first and only public presentation of the film with its new score before it premieres on TCM Feb. 25 at 10 p.m. ET/7 p.m. PT. […]
“Far From Heaven,” featuring a score by Elmer Bernstein, opened in the US November 8th. The film stars Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid and Dennis Haysbert and co-stars Patricia Clarkson. It is set in the 1950s and depicts the beautiful, yet oppressive surfaces of middle-class, mid-century America. The film is reminiscent of the films of Douglas […]
December 9, 2002 Picture: producers Christine Vachon, Jody Patton Director, screenplay: Todd Haynes Actress: Julianne Moore Supporting actor: Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert Cinematography: Ed Lachman Production design: Mark Friedberg Costume design: Sandy Powell Music: Elmer Bernstein Editing: James Lyons The prospect of Todd Haynes being an Oscar fave might have seemed odd a few years […]
No routines for composer Elmer Bernstein, thank you. “I rarely do anything at the same time each day,” he says, “simply because anything you do routinely cannot possibly be fresh. I think having a life with change in it keeps you young.” Change has certainly worked for Bernstein, 80, who has been at the top […]
Pianist-Host Mona Golabek invites the the public to hear the Maestro’s favorite classical pieces and read selections of his favorite poetry. See playlist for this week’s showtimes and stations (December 7—Los Angeles, KMZT – 105.1 FM 10:00PM and flagship station WQXR 96.3 FM, New York, at Midnight)
Composer:Elmer Bernstein Conductor: Elmer Bernstein Performer: The Hollywood Symphony Orchestra Manufacturer: Prometheus Catalog Number: PCR 512 Dan Goldwasser | SOUNTRACK.NET Elmer Bernstein will forever be, at least in my mind, one of the best composers for a western movie ever. It’s probably because of his brilliant score in 1960 to The Magnificent Seven that the […]
ACADEMY OF MOTION PICTURE ARTS AND SCIENCES NOMINATIONS BEST ORIGINAL SCORE – Elmer Bernstein BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY – Todd Haynes BEST ACTRESS – Julianne Moore BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY – Ed Lachman BRAVO INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS BEST FEATURE – Far From Heaven BEST DIRECTOR – Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven) BEST FEMALE LEAD – Julianne Moore (Far […]
A ravishing masterpiece by Todd Haynes (POISON; VELVET GOLDMINE), who channels Douglas Sirk by setting his melodrama in 50s suburban Connecticut, with Julianne Moore as perfect wife and mother Cathy Whitaker whose idyllic privileged life unravels when she catches her husband (Dennis Quaid) in the arms of another man. The only person she can open […]
Elmer Bernstein has been nominated for his fourteenth Academy Award® for his critically acclaimed score for “Far From Heaven.” He heard the news from his oldest son, who informed him that he has the distinction of being the only person to be nominated in six consecutive decades. “Does that mean I’ve been around for awhile?” […]
With a nod to Douglas Sirk, 'Far From Heaven' deftly updates '50s melodramas.
Todd Haynes’ melodrama “Far From Heaven” opens at the height of a New England autumn when the trees are ablaze in yellow, orange and a red so vivid it looks like blood. Set in Connecticut in the late 1950s, the film takes place in a small town where people go about their business quietly, including […]
At the beginning of “Far From Heaven,” the camera drifts downward toward the tidy streets of Hartford, through a screen of blood-red maple leaves. It is autumn 1957, and like the New England foliage, the people of Hartford are chilled into vivid, lurid color by the frost of middle-class, midcentury propriety. The bright clothes they […]
FAR FROM HEAVEN (PG-13). Pastels and pathos: Audacious homage to and inversion of the Hollywood “woman’s film” of the ’30s-’60s is an emotionally wrenching drama from the most important director in American cinema. With Julianne Moore, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Dennis Quaid, Viola Davis. Written and directed by Todd Haynes. 1:47 (adult content, language). At […]
Elmer Bernstein, whose credits as a film composer range from Some Came Running to Serpico to The Blues Brothers to Far From Heaven, will attend the York Theatre Company’s “Musicals in Mufti” production of Bernstein’s flop 1967 Broadway musical How Now, Dow Jones this weekend, according to the York’s press representative. Bernstein will see the […]
Todd Haynes's '50s period film works well in our age
Todd Haynes’s candy-colored “Far From Heaven” is a high-style high-wire act, a meticulous re-creation of the melodramatic “women’s pictures” of the 1950s. Haynes’s movie, set in 1957 Hartford, Conn., is a homage to such Douglas Sirk movies as “All That Heaven Allows” and “Imitation of Life.” But here the sexual and racial subtexts of those […]